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1. A member of a pastoral people living in the Nilgiri hills of southern India.
5. The compass point that is one point south of due east.
8. An honorary degree in science.
11. South American armadillo with three bands of bony plates.
12. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
13. An actor's line that immediately precedes and serves as a reminder for some action or speech.
14. Having nine hinged bands of bony plates.
15. A master's degree in business.
16. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
17. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
19. A port city in southwestern Iran.
24. A motley assortment of things.
28. Strip the skin off.
29. Australian shrubs and small trees with evergreen usually spiny leaves and dense clusters of showy flowers.
31. (Babylonian) The sky god.
32. The cry made by sheep.
35. French biochemist who (with Francois Jacob) explained how genes are activated and suggested the existence of messenger RNA (1910-1976).
39. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
40. A town in central Kansas.
43. An intensely radioactive metallic element that occurs in minute amounts in uranium ores.
44. A vest pocket to hold a pocket watch.
46. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann.
48. A former agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States.
49. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
50. Used of a single unit or thing.
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1. Thin fibrous bark of the paper mulberry and Pipturus albidus.
2. An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the sale of petroleum.
3. A light touch or stroke.
4. A constellation in the southern hemisphere near Telescopium and Norma.
5. Any of various trees of the genus Ulmus.
6. A small cake leavened with yeast.
7. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
8. Any of a number of fishes of the family Carangidae.
9. A communist state in the Caribbean on the island of Cuba.
10. An administrator in charge of a division of a university or college.
18. Large brownish-green New Zealand parrot.
20. A unit of area (4840 square yards) used in English-speaking countries.
21. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
22. An ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanelles.
23. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
25. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
26. A Kwa language spoken by the Yoruba people in southwestern Nigeria.
27. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
30. Any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain.
33. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
34. Having winglike extensions.
36. A slender double-reed instrument.
37. An informal term for a father.
38. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
41. The syllable naming the sixth (submediant) note of a major or minor scale in solmization.
42. Tag the base runner to get him out.
45. Date used in reckoning dates before the supposed year Christ was born.
47. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
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